It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
Jealousy knows more than truth does.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.
He who awaits much can expect little.
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